Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will voluntarily meet with the Home Oversight Committee on Might 6 to reply questions on his connection to the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, based on a supply accustomed to the schedule.
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Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., introduced in early March that Lutnick had “proactively agreed to look voluntarily earlier than” the panel. However a date had not been set till now.
CNN first reported the date of Lutnick’s interview.
The Commerce Division didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Monday night time.
Lutnick, who had been a next-door neighbor of Epstein’s in New York Metropolis, informed the New York Publish final yr that he determined in 2005 that the politically related financier was “disgusting” and that he wished nothing to do with him after Epstein made an inappropriate comment whereas he was internet hosting Lutnick and his spouse at his townhouse in 2005.
“So I used to be by no means within the room with him socially, for enterprise and even philanthropy. That man was there, I wasn’t going ’trigger he’s gross,” Lutnick informed the paper.
Information launched by the Justice Division, nonetheless, confirmed that Lutnick and his household visited Epstein’s island in 2012 — 4 years after Epstein pleaded responsible to procuring an individual underneath 18 for prostitution and felony solicitation of prostitution — and that he appeared to ask Epstein to a small Hillary Clinton fundraiser in 2015.
At a Senate listening to this yr, Lutnick stated that he couldn’t recall why he took the journey to the island however that there was nothing “untoward” about it.
Of his upcoming interview, he informed Axios final month: “I sit up for showing earlier than the committee. I’ve completed nothing flawed and I wish to set the report straight.”
Authorities haven’t accused Lutnick of any wrongdoing in reference to Epstein.
